Author: RANKIN, IAN
Title: The flood
Description: London : Orion 2005. New Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 205 pages; Physical desc. : xviii. 205 p. ; 24 cm. Previous ed. : Edinburgh: Polygon. 1986. Includes new introduction by the author. Subjects: Fife (Scotland) --Fiction --Crime and mystery. Summary: In 1986. a small Scottish publishing firm released a first novel by a talented young writer. Only a few hundred copies were printed but it was a literary milestone nonetheless. The book was 'The Flood'. The author was Ian Rankin.Mary Miller had always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead. sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. Now. years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son. Sandy. and caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Sandy. meanwhile. has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past. in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas. glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth. of fire and water - of the flood. 'The Flood' is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of a time and place. Proto-Rankin as it is. it's dark. atmospheric and powerful - a remarkable debut from a remarkable author. by Ian Rankin.ISBN: 0752873091. Weight in Kg appr.:

Keywords: 0752873091